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Security and privacy are becoming more and more important as we transmit much more than just words via email. Yahoo is developing two new technologies to protect your data and create security solutions. Soon, any sensitive data that you send using email, from business documents to personal information, can be kept secure using an advanced end-to-end (e2e) encryption plugin for Yahoo Mail. And, if you forget your password, Yahoo has come up with a new solution for that as well. Yahoo is calling their new password retrieval system On-demand passwords.

Yesterday, Google announced an update to their Contacts feature, which rolled in a fresh look at some interesting new features. It’s great for managing contacts, but what about fining info on people quickly? Today, Yahoo is rolling out Contact Cards for email, which brings up quick-hit info on the person you’re corresponding with. When you hover over the name of a person who is included in an email chain, Yahoo might tell you where they work, as well as email info and phone numbers.

It's been a rough road for the TV series Community. The show was cancelled for the second time after its fifth season last year. Luckily the show has proved to be impervious to cancellation and has always found a way to bounce back from the brink of demise. Now, we finally get a sixth season of Community! Thankfully, Yahoo stepped in at the last minute to save Community. They bought up the show and will release it exclusively on their website and streaming platform Yahoo Screen.

Twenty years ago today, Yahoo launched as a simple search engine created by Jerry Yang and David Filo. The landscape of the Internet has changed drastically over the past two decades. Yahoo is still in the game, especially with its recent acquisitions of Aviate, Flurry, and BrightRoll. Yahoo has been investing in adding new companies to its portfolio so it can keep enhancing ..... the way we use the internet today. Yahoo has recently been setting its sights on the mobile market as it hosted its first Yahoo Mobile Developer Conference last month.

Today in San Francisco, Yahoo is holding their first Mobile Developers Conference. With over 1,000 Devs in attendance, Yahoo was quick to roll out a new suite of tools for them to get tucked into. A lot of attention was paid to analytics, where Yahoo’s prior acquisition of Flurry is starting to pay off. With some of the tools, Yahoo will give Developers a better avenue to monetize, and even some reach into advertising. Yahoo also made a bold move to ingrain their search engine into apps.

Word has surfaced alleging Yahoo began firing employees yesterday in what was a surprise move leaving many people feeling "kind of shell-shocked". The news comes from sources familiar with the matter who state the cuts took place in multiple groups throughout the company, and that they were made as part of a restructuring plan, the specifics of which being unknown at this point. Program/product managers and designers are said to be included among those being let go, though engineers are reportedly staying put for now.

Google has been dominating the search scene for a very long time with the vast majority of online searches going to Google. However, in January 2015 Yahoo saw a big uptick in searchers using its search engine from Firefox users and that uptick eroded Google's user base. Google still has the lion's share of all searches but has fallen below 75% market share for the first time.

We know you ‘Google it’ when you’re not sure what’s going on, or you need an answer you just can’t find. We do it, too. Everyone does it. What nobody seems to do is ‘Yahoo it’, but that seems to be changing. In the last month, Google has given up a full 4% of search traffic, their largest slip-up since 2009. Google still hold sway, with literally three-fourths of the overall search traffic, but Yahoo picked up where Google left off.

You might not have noticed since it was Friday afternoon immediately after a holiday when most people are still on vacation into the weekend, but both Bing and Yahoo search engines went down for a few hours. The good news is that the downtime didn't last long, and wasn't the result of some nefarious hackers' campaign to disrupt our lives. It was actually just an accident caused by a bad update from Microsoft to the Bing engine, and since Yahoo's search is powered by Bing, it was interesting example of the domino effect among internet giants.

This week we've had a chat with Mark Daiss, Product Manager for Yahoo Aviate & Aviate Co-founder on the successful launch and continued updates to the Aviate Android launcher app. With the addition of Yahoo search to the app this week, the full replacement of your standard smartphone user interface is primed for action. Just in time for Christmas, just in time to change the way your brand new Android smartphone looks from the inside out. Supposing you want the Yahoo experience, that is to say.

Google has one; so does Facebook. Apple’s own event sets a standard, and even Samsung has jumped on-board. Now, Yahoo has their own Developer’s conference, with the focus being on mobile. The first ever Yahoo Mobile Developer Conference will take place on February 19, 2015. Recent Yahoo acquisition Flurry will figure prominently, with Yahoo saying they’ll introduce what’s next from Yahoo as it relates to mobile Developers. Yahoo exec Simon Khalaf will also give a “State of Mobile” address to attendees.

YouTube has become a place where anyone can upload creative content in an attempt to be noticed. Though the service has given plenty of viral heroes their start, a new report suggests the video service is in a panic. The Wall Street Journal, citing sources inside Google, say YouTube is in a “fire drill”. The reason for all the concern is talent poaching, where startup Vessel is said to be leading a surge in competing platforms who are trying to lure YouTubers away.